Debt-Free Art Degree: Foundations in Drawing
The Affordable Way to Learn Professional Skills - Includes QR Codes to Online Tutorials
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Publisher Description
An essential guide for a new generation of artists to learn professional-level art skills—no student loan required!
Now a successful artist, illustrator, and YouTube star, Marco Bucci once thought you had to be born with art talent and go to an expensive art school to have a career in art. Unfortunately, he couldn’t draw and didn’t get into art school, but he heard that drawing was something you could learn anyway, so he set off on a self-guided journey of becoming an artist. In Debt-Free Art Degree: Foundations in Drawing, Marco shares what he learned to help you become a successful artist without experiencing the same false starts and setbacks he did.
With QR codes to video demonstrations to solidify your understanding of the techniques and concepts, this accessible yet comprehensive guide offers:
Affordable, high-level art instruction for serious beginners and seasoned artists seeking skill enhancement or a career in artA logical curriculum that avoids information overloadConnected lessons, exercises, and demonstrations that pave the way to strong drawing skillsInstruction on essential art principles such as working with 2D and 3D shapes, gesture, form, color, and moreAdvice and encouragement to develop your personal artistic vision while building foundational skills
Debt-Free Art Degree: Foundations in Drawing is your gateway to a thorough and budget-friendly art education. While you won’t have a diploma to hang on your wall, you will have all the tools you need to create incredible art.
Customer Reviews
Uninspiring Garbage
I liked Marco from YouTube and was excited to see his book. I rarely regret buying drawing books as they usually have something to offer. This is the rare exception. Uninspired, a retread of classical drawing techniques, and a whole lot of peacocking his own work. You can’t reverse engineer a great drawing by counting how many tangents it has; tangents happen naturally and I’m certainly not going to stand in awe of DaVinci because of how many T’s he has. The book has no consistent flow, one day you’re thinking you’re drawing foundations, the next you’re thrown into gesture drawings. People hype gesture drawings because they think they are flowy stick figures but they’re as worthless as contour drawings: they fill pages of drawing books and make beginners feel like they’re doing so when instead you’re keeping them handcuffed to square one. Gesture drawings come AFTER you teach form, anatomy, mass, and construction. You teach perspective, shading in the middle of the book —- and once again, no new ground is covered here. We get it: draw a railroad track that converges to the center, a barn with a fence, and a city street like in a comic book and suddenly you’re a perspective master. All of your models are just dudes in blue jeans with no presence. Draw the face! What happened to all those T’s you were so keen on earlier? Have you prepared your reader to draw the face in any other angle other than the one you showed? Nope. Color theory. More like, look at the paintings I made. And yet another book that maintains no color looks good unless it’s paired with its complement. Nature is chaotic, random, and wondrous — none of that, here. Your book made me angry.